Who are the scariest villains of fiction?

Totally agree.
It still gives me chills, when I visualize them.

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I'm with Nurse Ratched, as well. So memorable.

Also:

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To me, the scariest villains of fiction in the movies are the ones you never see, or never get a good look at, if the film manages to pull it off believably. Regarding genuine terror in film, it's all about imagination and interpretation. And, with that in mind, the unseen presence--the demon--from Paranormal Activity and the Blair Witch from The Blair Witch Project are my Number One and Two picks.





You have to hand it to the crawlers in The Descent, however; they managed to make me jump in my seat more than once.

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Good for you. Have you watched The Exorcist? (The original, not "The Version You've Never Seen"?)

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Yes, at least I'm pretty sure it's the original. Whatever version was released with the standard edition DVD; I'd have to check. Is the latter some sort of director's cut or something?

Yes, but the original is so much better...

I just checked and I do have the "Version You've Never Seen Before." I love the movie, and would consider it scary--unsettling really--but not among the scariest to me. I'll have to look into the original, though, if it's something you recommend.

That Blair Witch didn't do anything for me. I don't see how you can say she's a scary villain since we really don't know what the heck is going on or who or what is responsible.

Kind of the point Dom was making, will. It was the unseen/unknown that made it all the more scary for him.

All the lore that goes with her back-story; the morbid history of her character that we learn through Heather's interviews is what invokes creepiness in me, and if we do assume that it is indeed the Blair Witch causing the events in the film (the stick figures, rock piles, kidnapping Josh, etc.), then yeah--I think she's a genuinely scary character despite us never actually having seen her.

Plus what honeykid said.

I'll take the guy we don't see driving the truck over the witch we don't see.
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I completely agree with you guys. Signs is another good example of the unseen frightener. Until the end, with the water and a satisfying baseball bat beat-down, we're doing the most scaring in our heads.
Are villians we can see as frightening as their unseen counter-parts?

The Blair Witch of the 1950's.

Jaws

a fish is scary?
sorry.

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The scary villian in this picture is not the scarey looking man, but the toy doll. You better be nice to her!

Have you seen that fish's teeth?

It's because a lot people did think that fish was scary Steven Spielberg is still making movies.

I've gotta go with viddy on this one. I love Jaws, it's possibly my favourite film of all time, it's certainly in my top 5, but I've never found that film scary. Ever. Not even when I was 8 and saw it for the first time. Never.